In this movie, I'll show you your final zoom option which is to dial in a custom…zoom value, which is great for establishing a wide, centered view.…When I first opened this image in this particular screen, it comes in at 16.7%,…which is just too far away.…If I press Ctrl+0 or Command+0 on the Mac to fit the image to the screen, you…can see that Photoshop is conservative, leaving a fair amount of pasteboard…around the edge which can be useful when you are trying to edit the image all…the way to its perimeter.…

But in my case, I don't want to see any of the pasteboard.…If I press Ctrl++ or Command++ on the Mac, I go the next increment, 25% which…ends up cutting off the side of the model's face.…So I need to find something in between.…I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+0 or Command+0 on the Mac to zoom back out.…Notice you have this custom zoom value down here in the lower-left corner of the…Image window, so you can dial with your own value.…For example, I'll enter 20% and then press the Enter key or the Return key on…

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4/26/2012

Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals is a concise and focused introduction to the key features in Photoshop, presented by long-time lynda.com author and Adobe veteran Deke McClelland. This course covers the image editing process from the very beginning and progresses through the concepts and techniques that every photographer or graphic designer should know. Deke explains digital imaging fundamentals, such as resolution vs. size and the effects of downsampling. He explains how to use layers to edit an image nondestructively and organize those edits in an easy-to-read way, and introduces techniques such as cropping, adjusting brightness and contrast, correcting and changing color, and retouching and healing images. These lessons distill the vast assortment of tools and options to a refined set of skills that will get you working inside Photoshop with confidence.

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Q: When I double click the welcome.psd file included with the exercise files, I get the following error message:

"Some text layers contain fonts that are missing. These layers will need to have the missing fonts replaced before they can be used for vector based output."

Unlike the TIF and JPEG files which display and open correctly, all the icons for PSD files are blank but other than the welcome.psd file, they seem to open correctly without the error message. Is this a problem that I should address (perhaps re-download the files or find the missing fonts)?

A: The TIFF and JPEG files are flat, so they don't contain fonts and the operating system can interpret them (and generate thumbnails) without help from Photoshop. The PSD files have two issues:

First, they may contain editable text complete with font info. The files are designed with fonts that ship with Photoshop, so you don't get error messages, but Adobe sells some versions of Photoshop without fonts. This may be your issue.

Second, the PSD files contain no flat previews. This makes for smaller files, but it means the operating system, Mac or Windows, cannot generate previews. That won't effect your experience in Photoshop, but it does mean you can't see the file until you open it.